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2 Chronicles 28 Summary
Ahaz's Idolatry and Multiple Defeats
Ahaz becomes king at twenty years old, reigning sixteen years. Unlike his father David, he walks in the ways of Israel's kings, makes molten images for Baal, burns incense in the valley of Hinnom, and even burns his children in fire. The LORD delivers him into the hands of Syria and Israel; the Syrians devastate Judah and carry captives to Damascus, while Israel kills 120,000 of Judah's men in one day. A prophet named Oded rebukes Israel for its cruelty and gains their agreement to release the captives. Edomites and Philistines further invade Judah. Ahaz seeks help from Assyria instead of God, sacrificing to Damascus's gods.
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2 Chronicles 28:1-2
“Ahaz was twenty years old when he began to reign, and he reigned sixteen years in Jerusalem: but he did not that which was right in the sight of the LORD, like David his father:”
2 Chronicles 28:3
“Moreover he burnt incense in the valley of the son of Hinnom, and burnt his children in the fire, after the abominations of the heathen whom the LORD had cast out before the children of Israel.”
2 Chronicles 28:5-6
“Wherefore the LORD his God delivered him into the hand of the king of Syria; and they smote him, and carried away a great multitude of them captives, and brought them to Damascus. And he was also delivered into the hand of the king of Israel, who smote him with a great slaughter.”
2 Chronicles 28:23-24
“For he sacrificed unto the gods of Damascus, which smote him: and he said, Because the gods of the kings of Syria help them, therefore will I sacrifice to them, that they may help me. But they were the ruin of him, and of all Israel.”
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